Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bent on killing; murderous.
Wiktionary
- adj. prone to slaughtering
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Destructive; murderous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. accompanied by bloodshed
Examples
“Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.”
“A good old fashioned superpowered slaughterous slugfest.”
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“How much more are we willing to give, how much more evil are we to ignore by treacherous leaders, how much more of a "chance" will we give the new leader to escalate the slaughterous stakes in Afghanistan after seven years of brutal invasion and occupation?”
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“Or (b) To live with the lie and to allow it to become precedent for the inevitability of similar future political and slaughterous treachery.”
“She was NOT "courageous," but furtive in keeping the treachery silent, thereby perverting the cause for slaughterous war.”
“Promoted to Headline (H3) on 4/10/09: We, too, Can "Cut and Run" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'We, too, Can "Cut and Run"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Messengers from the same masters who schemed us into the slaughterous debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan now advise that "we can\'t just cut and run.”
“It is amazing how many Americans criticize the action of the Muslim who threw his shoes at the personification of lying treachery when we should in fact commend him for displaying courage literally to the face of slaughterous power.”
“Kudos to the Shoe Launcher yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Kudos to the Shoe Launcher'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: It is amazing how many Americans criticize the action of the Muslim who threw his shoes at the personification of lying treachery when we should in fact commend him for displaying courage literally to the face of slaughterous power.”
“I hadn't noticed, and hadn't thought about it, and suddenly realized what an amazing thing it is to have my first ever spring without slaughterous overtones.”
“Perhaps not, but the world and history will not forgive dull minds in seeking self-advantage in the face of the slaughterous consequences, nor will we.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slaughterous’.
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Gristle and Flesh
Words that taste of violence, trauma, blood and brain, gore-some and slippery with vitreous humours. Lovely words, some of them! And the loveliest thing is how many of them are so *effective*, ma...
abattoir, gristle, viscous, eviscerate, ravage, carnage, gouge, claret, slaughterous, sanguinary, laniate, defenestrate and 11 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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simple & useful3
mystique, lurid, starry-eyed, fluttery, slumberous, listlessness, mumbler, experiential, travesty, reciprocity, immersion, bombarding and 60 more...
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War in Iraq
Being a Vietnam veteran, I support the troops but hate the demoniacal dishonesty that put them there.
slaughterous, nightmarish, horrifyingly, viciousness, calamitous, catastrophic, ruinous, malefic, annihilative, hellacious, apocalyptic, hideousness and 13 more...
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